Scots Officials Claim Obama Administration Asked Them To Free Lockerbie Bomber

[jordan179]

According to Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent of the Guardian, in an article published just today (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/barack-obama-megrahi-release-lockerbie)

the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie

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[typewriterking]

I can only hope for this.

I recommend reading Frederick Forsyth's 'The Afghan'. If you want to see Tripoli become a sea of flames, ahem, there's an app for that.

[jordan179]

Not a bad idea, but the same sort of effect could be more easily delivered via FAE or simply mass incendiary bombardment from the air.

[polaris93]

Oh, lovely. I can't wait. Well, it couldn't happen to a more deserving dictator, now, could it?

[expectare]

when Tripoli is a sea of flames from end to end, and the screams of dying Libyans

uhhh what

[jordan179]

I was in a bad mood when I typed this, but I do think that until we start wreaking some disproportionate retribution, the Terrorist States will continue to launch deadly probes against us, both in retaliation for our daring to defend ourselves, and in search for weakness. Lockerbie was such a probe, and Libya never suffered any retaliation for the attack.

[expectare]

Libya never suffered any retaliation for the attack.

This is true.

[polaris93]

If Dubya'd still been in office, none of this would have happened. But if Libya had given us provocation, yeah, "sea of flames" time. I've missed Dubya ever since he left office. I just knew something like this was coming. DAMN YOU TO HELL FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY, OBAMA -- AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!

[zerorevenge]

the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds.

WHUT.

[jordan179]

Yes. Apparently our Obamessiah decided to press the "reset" button with the Libyans as well. Thanks, Lightworker.

[zerorevenge]

Wow.... I.... **headdesk**

God Dammit.

[sianmink]

Actually, no.

In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.

The note added: “Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.”

That's not supporting the murderer's release, it's 'if you're going to do this, it's better than that, at least.'

[squid314]

I stand by my counter-intuitive slightly horrifying essay on the subject.

[jordan179]

He is apparently not dying, or at least not rapidly. Surely America and/or Britain could speed the process, via Predator?

And if you're really concerned about making money from Libyan oil, a more honorable way for America and Britain to have done so consistent with punishing the Libyans would have been to seize the country and take reparations for Lockerbie in Libyan oil.

[squid314]

'cause, of course, invading a country is free! That's why we can invade Iraq and Afghanistan without it contributing to the deficit while of course health care would be too expensive!

(sorry, just spent a while talking to conservatives and still in kind of a bad mood ;) )

[ford_prefect42]

Well, let's see, the "wartime" military expenditures of george bush were a whole 4% of gdp. Healthcare, over the same period, was 14% of gdp. with the government fraction being 8% of gdp. So, yes. Wars (at least the ones we have been in recently) are, by comparison, extremely cheap. Healthcare *already* costs twice as much as the 2 wars did. Imagine what it will cost after the cost inflation provisions of the "healthcare" bill get finished.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ms_mil_xpnd_gd_zs&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+military+expenditures+graph

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_pub_spe_as_of_tot-health-public-spending-total

[polaris93]

When it comes to Libya and Muamaar Gadafi (or however the hell you spell it), yeah, actually, that would help me sleep better at night. Libya has been run by that terrorist-enabler for years. If he had nukes, he'd be using them to blackmail Israel, us, and anyone else he could get away with threatening. By all means, let's hear it for getting rid of the bastard as thoroughgoingly as possible.

[zerorevenge]

Your icon is silly.